serious crimes, usually murder, and led to the eventual quashing of most of the convictions. Among his successful cases were the brothers Paul and Wayne Darvell, who typified the unglamorous and forgotten cases that Jessel and his team championed. In 1990, the Rough Justice team decamped to Channel 4 and set up a production company, Just Television, dedicated exclusively to the investigation and publicising of miscarriages of justice. Jessel had been angered by the BBC's threats to drop the programme due to financial constraints and said: "I couldn't stand being cut back when programmes glorifying the police were expanding like a giant fungus." The chairman of Just Television's advisory board was Jessel's friend and mentor Ludovic Kennedy, an investigator of wrongful convictions. The new programme, Trial and Error, continued to expose wrongful convictions, including the cases of Peter Fell, Mary Druhan Sheila Bowler and Danny McNamee – all of which led to the convictions being quashed by the Court of Appeal. Criminal Cases Review Commission From 2000 to 2010, Jessel was a commissioner of the Criminal Cases Review Commission, an independent public body set up to investigate possible miscarriages of justice in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Commission assesses whether convictions or sentences should be referred to a court of appeal. Jessel had been a prominent supporter and advocate of such an independent public body for many years prior to its creation. On his retirement as senior commissioner, The Times described Jessel as "a tireless champion of the wrongfully convicted". Other broadcasting and public positions Since 2004, Jessel has been a regular anchor on BBC World News, as well as a guest presenter on the channel's flagship interview programme HARDtalk. He has served on the Advertising Standards Authority's advisory council, and is a member of the Code Compliance Tribunal of PhonePay+ regulating telephone premium-rate services. He currently sits on the Complaints Board of the independent press regulator IPSO. Personal life Jessel is married and lives in Oxfordshire. He has a son and daughter, and two children from his first marriage. Publications In 1989, Jessel co-authored the international bestseller Brain Sex with scientist Anne Moir, the first scientific analysis of the differences between the male and female mind. In 1995, the same partnership produced A Mind to Crime, which looked at the biological influences on criminality. Jessel also wrote Trial and Error, a book to accompany the Channel 4 television